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To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But...
09.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But... Via SchiffGold.com, In 2009, 140 banks failed, and a recent report from financial consulting firm Klaros Group says that hundreds of banks are at risk of going under this year. It’s being billed mostly as a danger for individuals and communities than for the broader economy, but for stressed...
Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains
09.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains US equity futures are weaker as yields resume their rise and the USD strengthens after the BOE signaled it was ready to cut rates. As of 7:45am, S&P futures were down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures dipped 0.3% as all Mag7 names and most semis were red in the premarket. Most European markets are lower, tracking US...
Can You Guess What It Costs To Live "The American Dream" After 3 Years Of Inflation Under Joe Biden?
09.05.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can You Guess What It Costs To Live "The American Dream" After 3 Years Of Inflation Under Joe Biden? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, If you are like most Americans, the cost of living has been going up much faster than your income has been. Right now, millions of Americans that were once prospering are now deeply...
BOE Keeps Rates Unchanged But Edges Closer To Cutting As Deputy Governor Calls For Easing
09.05.2024, 13:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BOE Keeps Rates Unchanged But Edges Closer To Cutting As Deputy Governor Calls For Easing With both the Swiss SNB and Swedish Riksbank starting to cut rates, many were wondering if the BOE would join the easing cycle next. And while it did not, instead keeping rates unchanged at 5.25% for the sixth straight meeting of its policymakers, in line with...
The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt"
09.05.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt" Yesterday we discussed the latest consumer credit data, which revealed that the amount of credit card debt across the US has hit a new record high of $1.337 trillion (even though it appears to have finally hit a brick wall, barely rising...
"Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings
09.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings One theme we've spotted this earnings season has been an increasing number of companies warning about low-income consumers. From McDonald's to Starbucks to Tyson Foods, executives on earnings calls have warned about mounting headwinds hitting the...
Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders
09.05.2024, 00:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders It may seem crazy, but here's some advice for heavily indebted Gen-Zers: Put down the smartphone. Stop spending on DoorDash and Uber Eats. Perhaps cancel a few streaming services. Also, the spending party is over despite calls from the White House to cancel student...
The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
08.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts...
WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec
08.05.2024, 16:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec Oil prices are rebounding off overnight lows - once again testing the technical support of the 100-day moving average - after sliding following API's report of across the board inventory builds last night. Oil has been on a downtrend since early April, posting losses in three of the...
Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F"
08.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F" Billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office Chairman & CEO Stan Druckenmiller slammed Bidenomics and warned the Federal Reserve and federal government "misdiagnosed Covid and thought it was -- we were going into a depression." Druckenmiller has been irritated by the massive fiscal spending by the...
WTI Dips After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Builds
07.05.2024, 22:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Dips After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Builds Oil prices ended the day flat today (after touching the lowest level in almost two months on news reports said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak indicated OPEC+ could move to raise crude production). Novak told Russia's Interfax news agency that the possibility of increasing oil...
Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High
07.05.2024, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High After several months of wild swings in US consumer debt, culminating with last month's jump in credit card debt to a new all time high despite record high credit card rates, in March households finally hit a brick wall because according to the latest consumer credit data...
Biden Ready To Use SPR Again If Oil Prices Rise
07.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Ready To Use SPR Again If Oil Prices Rise Several weeks after we reported that - very unsurprisingly - the Biden admin had halted its laughable attempts to refill the SPR as oil prices soared (having missed its entire window to do so when WTI was trading in the low $70s), we speculated that it may be only a matter of time before the senile president...
Billionaire, Harvard Donor Ken Griffin Says Protesters Are Byproduct Of "Failed Education System"
07.05.2024, 17:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Billionaire, Harvard Donor Ken Griffin Says Protesters Are Byproduct Of "Failed Education System" Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel and a Harvard University alumnus, was interviewed Monday evening at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. During the interview, Griffin blasted protesters at woke elite colleges and universities...
What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather
07.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather US stock futures are flat after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both closed 1% higher on Monday, helped by growing optimism among investors that the economy is finally slowing greenlighting earlier rate cuts by the Fed. As of 8:00am ET S&P futures were unchanged at 5,206, trading about 1% above its 50DMA,...
Credit Smacks Of Complacency As Spreads Collapse
07.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Credit Smacks Of Complacency As Spreads Collapse By James Crombie, Bloomberg Markets Live writer and strategist Wafer-thin spreads on corporate debt don’t matter — until they do. There are several potential triggers for risk premia to flare, denting credit portfolios. Spreads have collapsed across the board, from investment-grade and junk bonds...
Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low
07.05.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low By Megan Brenan of Gallup With Americans less optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy than they have been in recent months and concern about inflation persisting, their confidence in President Joe Biden to recommend or do the right thing for the economy is among the lowest Gallup has measured...
Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump's Best Choice As A Running Mate
06.05.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump's Best Choice As A Running Mate Authored by Richard Truesdell via American Greatness, Despite the unprecedented and coordinated lawfare deployed against him, Donald Trump has emerged as the Republican presidential front-runner. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat who is both a centrist and moderate (by today’s...
Despite Powell's QTeasing, The Correction May Not Be Over Yet
06.05.2024, 17:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Despite Powell's QTeasing, The Correction May Not Be Over Yet Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest FOMC meeting caused a stock rally as Jerome Powell turned more “dovish” than expected. While Powell did note that progress on inflation has been lackluster, the announcement of the reversal of “Quantitative Tightening” (QT)...
Berkshire's Growing Cash Pile Has A Hidden Message On Stocks
06.05.2024, 15:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berkshire's Growing Cash Pile Has A Hidden Message On Stocks Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, US stocks are seeing no evil and certainly hearing none, but Berkshire Hathaway’s ever-growing cash pile should hold a tacit warning for those who are overexuberant. Berkshire’s war chest surged to a record $189 billion at the end...
"Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted?
06.05.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted? By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Is the wealth effect being substituted? Summary China’s real estate market suffered heavy losses early this year while stock market investors continue to face huge uncertainty. This will add to the deterioration...
Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose?
05.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance In one of the most fascinating discussions I’ve had in a while, I spoke last weekend with my friend Andy Schectman about the state of the world, markets, geopolitics and the economy. What started as a friendly catch-up quickly turned into delving into angles on the state of...
Largest Review On Transgender-Youth Medicine Finds Insufficient Evidence For Medicalization
05.05.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest Review On Transgender-Youth Medicine Finds Insufficient Evidence For Medicalization Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), England may be the third country to withdraw from a “gender-affirming” treatment pathway due to recommendations from a long-awaited report. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, The Cass Review, Getty...
Bitcoin ETFs See Buying Resurgence; 'Mr.100' BTFD As Grayscale Sees First Inflow Since Jan
04.05.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin ETFs See Buying Resurgence; 'Mr.100' BTFD As Grayscale Sees First Inflow Since Jan For the first time since spot bitcoin ETFs were launched, Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) saw a daily net inflow on Friday (of $63 million)... Source: Bloomberg GBTC has dominated the outflows since inception (adding up to around $17.5 billion) since the...
Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors
04.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The Fed’s preferred inflation measure rose 2.8% in March from a year ago. This is the core personal consumption expenditures price index, excluding food and energy, which should be less volatile than the consumer price index and a better indicator of the real process of...
Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender
04.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, A major intellectual revelation from my youth came from reading Murray Rothbard’s “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” (1963). He includes a passing opinion that private markets are perfectly capable of producing money with no help from government...
Americans Continue To Name Inflation As Top Financial Problem: Gallup
03.05.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Continue To Name Inflation As Top Financial Problem: Gallup By Jeffrey Jones at Gallup For the third year in a row, the percentage of Americans naming inflation or the high cost of living as the most important financial problem facing their family has reached a new high. The 41% naming the issue this year is up slightly from 35% a year ago...
Fed F**kery Turns $37BN 'Unadjusted' Bank Deposit OUTFLOW Into $126BN INFLOW
03.05.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed F**kery Turns $37BN 'Unadjusted' Bank Deposit OUTFLOW Into $126BN INFLOW Money market funds added $23.6BN in assets last week, pushing the total funds under management back above $6 Trillion - still well off the highs (as some tax-related withdrawals remain lost)... Source: Bloomberg Both retail and institutional funds saw inflows last week... Source:...
Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls US stock futures pointed to further strength on Wall Street ahead of the April jobs report after solid earnings and a record buyback announcement from Apple As of 8:00am, S&P futures rise 0.3% while Nasdaq 100 contracts add 0.6% thanks to a 6% surge in Apple in premarket...
Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction
02.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction US equities ended their two-day slide as tech companies surged late in the session. The trading day has been choppy, with Wall Street now turning its attention to Apple's earnings after the bell. Some analysts anticipate Apple will reveal a major buyback...
Yen Carry Trade Ever More Exposed To Rising FX Volatility
02.05.2024, 17:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Carry Trade Ever More Exposed To Rising FX Volatility Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Rising volatility in USD/JPY will make the yen carry trade less attractive. Dollar-yen is now more correlated with US 2-year yields compared to the 10 year, meaning FX volatility is likely to keep rising the closer the Federal Reserve gets...
US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners
02.05.2024, 15:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Most of the hawkish tilt in yields and rise in Federal Reserve interest rate expectations this year has come in non-US trading hours. A dovish repricing would therefore require (other things equal) a change of trading direction only in...
Vereinheitlichung der CBDCs? Globale Banken sagen uns, dass das Ende des Dollar-Systems nahe ist!
02.05.2024, 13:00 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Von Brandon Smith Der Weltreservestatus ermöglicht einen erstaunlichen Spielraum in der Geldpolitik. Die Federal Reserve ist sich bewusst, dass im Ausland eine ständige Nachfrage nach Dollars besteht, um Waren leichter ein- und ausführen zu können. Der Petro-Status des Dollars macht ihn auch für den weltweiten Ölhandel unverzichtbar. Dies bedeutet...
The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
02.05.2024, 11:04 Uhr. Global Research - https: - The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco) The post The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families appeared first on Global Research....
Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy Authored by Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group, President Biden’s decision to participate in the Ukraine-Russia conflict back in February 2022 has taken a new and dangerous turn this year. The U.S. dollar could suffer dramatically as a result. Before we explore that new development...
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You're Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t
01.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You're Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Almost as if all of us Austrian Economists (read: any carbon based life form using common sense when it comes to finance) live in an echo chamber together, a third expert I respect came out over the last few days and has warned that 5% on the 10 year treasury...
South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term
01.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term Back in 2011, around the time gold hits its previous cycle high, South Korea surprised the fiat world when it revealed that it had spent more than a billion dollars in its first gold purchase in more than a decade, as uncertainty about global growth and sovereign debt push central...
Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near
30.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, World reserve status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The dollar’s...
Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This
30.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This One can listen to, and believe, the government's lies about the miraculous growth of the economy and the stellar job that Bidenomics is doing... or one can listen to the truth straight from the countless small companies that make up the economy. We prefer the latter, which is why we...
Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming
30.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last two weeks, the bullish sentiment index has reversed from extreme greed to fear. The composite net bullish sentiment index, comprised of professional and retail investors, fell from 38.15 to 9.9 in two weeks. The previous drop...
"On The Verge Of Panic" - Dallas Fed Services Survey Suffers Longest Slump Since 'Lehman'
30.04.2024, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "On The Verge Of Panic" - Dallas Fed Services Survey Suffers Longest Slump Since 'Lehman' It has been a terrible day for 'soft' survey data... Source: Bloomberg And it was just capped off by a big drop in Dallas Fed's Services survey (which compliments yesterday's Dallas Fed Manufacturing meltdown). The headline print dropped from -5.5 to -10.6. That...
Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut
30.04.2024, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The Federal Reserve’s next move this year is likely to be a rate cut - despite the re-emergence of inflation - leaving markets at risk of a dovish repricing. When it comes to the Fed, it’s easy to get hung up on what they should do, and neglect...
US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024
30.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024 US equity futures dropped, and European markets were mixed on the last day of the month amid concerns the Fed may stick to its hawkish messaging at its meeting on Wednesday. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Europe’s Stoxx 600 index retreated 0.4%, while Asian...
Big Government's Crackdown On Hedge Fund Home-Buying Looms
30.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Big Government's Crackdown On Hedge Fund Home-Buying Looms "I strongly support free markets," but this "corporate large-scale buying of residential homes seems to be distorting the market and making it harder for the average Texan to purchase a home," Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on X in March. He added, "This must be added to the legislative...
California's Tax Revenue Projections Weakening As Newsom's Budget Revision Deadline Looms
30.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Tax Revenue Projections Weakening As Newsom's Budget Revision Deadline Looms Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With the state facing a record-high budget deficit, tax collections are failing to meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal projections, which could put further pressure on the state’s...
The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End
29.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereignMan.com, It’s barely been a year since the 2023 bank crisis in which several large banks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, failed. At the time, I wrote that the bank failures weren’t over, and that there would be more. But it’s been quiet...
Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today
29.04.2024, 20:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today Ahead of Wednesday's full Treasury refunding announcement and FOMC announcement, as well as today's Treasury Borrowing Estimate, a nerdy clash has broken out within the rates market between those who expect the Treasury to surprise to the downside with its upcoming Sources...
Intervention Or Not, Yen Bears Will Stay Confident
29.04.2024, 15:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intervention Or Not, Yen Bears Will Stay Confident By Vassilis Karamanis, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and FX strategist Unless Japanese authorities show their hand with conviction when it comes to intervening in the spot market, the yen is bound to stay under pressure over the medium-term. The currency’s sharp rally this morning certainly looks...
Who Has Savings In This Economy?
29.04.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Has Savings In This Economy? Two full years of inflation have taken their toll on American households. In 2023, the country’s collective credit card debt crossed $1 trillion for the first time. So who is managing to save money in the current economic environment? Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao visualizes the percentage of respondents to the...